Broad Spectrum Anti-Quorum Sensing Activity of Tannin-Rich Crude Extracts of Indian Medicinal Plants by Varsha Shukla, Zarine Bhathena

“…Quorum sensing (QS) mechanisms have been demonstrated to have significance in expression of pathogenicity in infectious bacteria. In Gram negative bacteria the autoinducer molecules that mediate QS are acyl homoserine lactones (AHL) and in Gram positive bacteria they are peptides called autoinducing peptides (AIP). …”
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Microwave Assisted Synthesis and Antimicrobial Evaluation of Schiff Bases of Indole-3-aldehyde by Priyanka Kamaria, N. Kawathekar, Prerna Chaturvedi

“…All compounds were tested against five gram positive and five gram negative bacterial strains and one fungal strain. …”
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Efficacy of Andrographis paniculata, Psidium guajava and Piper betle as Prevention on Motile Aeromonad Septicaemia Infection in African Catfish (Clarias sp.) by D. Wahjuningrum, . Tarono, S.L. Angka

“…The results of study indicated that administration of herbal medicine A. paniculata, P. guajava and P. betle mixed into the diet effectively prevented A. hydrophila infection.  Combination of 1.0 gram A. paniculata, 0.75 gram P. guajava and 0.25 gram P. betle gave higher efficacy against A. hydrophila infection. …”
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Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of pathogens isolated from clinical specimens at a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh, 2020–2023 by Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Fahim Alam Nobel, Saiful Islam, Amiyo Haider, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Mohammod Johirul Islam

“…Out of 2068 isolates, 644 (31.1 %) were gram-positive and 1424 (68.9 %) were gram-negative bacteria. …”
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BACTERIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF WOUND INFECTION AND ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERNS IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN SURABAYA, INDONESIA by Ika Ayunur Kholifah, Dwi Wahyu Indriati, Ratna Wahyuni, Aliyah Siti Sundari

“…The results of antibiotic sensitivity on Gram-negative bacteria were Piperacillin/Tazobactam and Meropenem, and on Gram-positive bacteria Vancomycin and Linezolid were obtained. …”
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BACTERIAL PROFILE AND ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST AMONG DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS WITH GANGRENE IN SURABAYA by Imro`atul Qona`ah, Aliyah Siti Sundari, Ratna Wahyuni, Dwi Wahyu Indriati

“…Result: The data obtained from 39 patients revealed 29 (74.4%) positive patients for bacterial infection. The Gram-negative bacteria was found to cause infection more frequently (72.41%) than the Gram-positive bacteria (27.59%). …”
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Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance in Culture-positive Hospitalized Patients in Selected Hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan by Nagwa M. El Amin, Einas A. Osman, Leena Al-Hassan, Ihab B Abdalrahman

“…More than 90% of the tested isolates were resistant to cefuroxime; 54% and 73.8% of Gram-positive and Gram-negative isolates, respectively, were resistant to ceftazidime. …”
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Perbandingan Konsumsi Lemak Berdasarkan Tingkat Keparahan Akne Vulgaris pada Siswa SMK Negeri 1 Kota Jambi by Nisa Sulistia, Nur Indrawati Lipoeto, Sri Lestari

“…Rerata<br />konsumsi lemak total 89,35 ± 17,63 gram. Rerata konsumsi SFA (Saturated Fatty Acid) 37,07 ± 9,97 gram. …”
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A Comparative Study of Antibacterial Activity of CuO/Ag and ZnO/Ag Nanocomposites by R. B. Asamoah, E. Annan, B. Mensah, P. Nbelayim, V. Apalangya, B. Onwona-Agyeman, A. Yaya

“…The applied nanocomposites using microdilution showed that CuO/Ag had approximately 98.8% and 98.7% efficiency on the respective Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species, while ZnO/Ag achieved 91.7% and 89.3% efficiency, respectively, against the Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial species. …”
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Diphtheria case detection and carrier study of close contacts: A step towards diphtheria eradication by Shilpa R. Shah, Nisha C. Karanje

“…Introduction: Diphtheria is an infectious disease caused by gram-positive bacilli C. diphtheriae involving nasal, pharyngeal, tonsillar, or laryngeal mucus membranes. …”
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New Option for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing in Clinical Practice: Performance Evaluation of AutoMic-i600 Automatic System Based on Broth Microdilution Method by Lin C, Zhang H, Wu Q, Qiu X, Li Q, Wu G

“…The overall EA and CA between Vitek 2 and BMD were 92.6% and 93.5% for Gram-negative bacteria and 97.9% and 97.4% for Gram-positive bacteria. …”
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Quercetin as a Precursor for the Synthesis of Novel Nanoscale Cu (II) Complex as a Catalyst for Alcohol Oxidation with High Antibacterial Activity by Zahra Moodi, Ghodsieh Bagherzade, Janny Peters

“…The synthesized nanoscale Cu (II) complex exhibited a strong antibacterial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.…”
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Antibiogram for Haemodialysis Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections by Abdul Halim Abdul Gafor, Pau Cheong Ping, Anis Farahanum Zainal Abidin, Muhammad Zulhilmie Saruddin, Ng Kah Yan, Siti Qania’ah Adam, Ramliza Ramli, Anita Sulong, Petrick Periyasamy

“…Eight (44.4%) patients had gram-negative infections, 7 (38.9%) patients gram-positive infections, and 3 (16.7%) patients had polymicrobial infections. …”
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Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Bacterial Isolates from Blood Culture among HIV/AIDS Patients at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia by Mohabaw Jemal, Teshiwal Deress, Teshome Belachew, Yesuf Adem

“…Among Gram-negative bacterial isolates, K. pneumoniae was the leading pathogen, 19 (41.3%), whereas S. aureus, 38 (49.4%), was predominant among Gram-positive isolates. …”
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Lightweight and Scalable Intrusion Trace Classification Using Interelement Dependency Models Suitable for Wireless Sensor Network Environment by Dae-Ki Kang

“…For efficient and lightweight counting of n -gram features without losing accuracy, we use a k -truncated generalized suffix tree ( k -TGST) for storing n -gram features. …”
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Ultrasonic Irradiation: Synthesis, Characterization, and Preliminary Antimicrobial Activity of Novel Series of 4,6-Disubstituted-1,3,5-triazine Containing Hydrazone Derivatives by Hessa H. Al-Rasheed, Monirah Al Alshaikh, Jamal M. Khaled, Naiyf S. Alharbi, Ayman El-Faham

“…The antimicrobial and antifungal activities were evaluated for all the prepared compounds against some selected Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains. …”
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Prosthetic Joint Infection Trends at a Dedicated Orthopaedics Specialty Hospital by Robert P. Runner, Amanda Mener, James R. Roberson, Thomas L. Bradbury, George N. Guild, Scott D. Boden, Greg A. Erens

“…Though the overall number of infections was reduced, there was a significantly higher proportion of Gram-negative infections over the 8-year timeframe at 25.3%. …”
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Diagnosis of Cellulitis in the Immunocompromised Host by Charles F Carey, Lawrence Dall

“…Staphylococci or streptococci were recovered in 59% of positive cultures, while aerobic Gram-negative bacilli grew in 33%. This study indicates that in the immunocompromised population with cellulitis, fine needle aspiration and blood cultures should be obtained, and the antibiotic regimen should cover Gram-positive cocci and Gram-negative bacilli pending the results of cultures.…”
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Effector proteins of Funneliformis mosseae BR221: unravelling plant-fungal interactions through reference-based transcriptome analysis, in vitro validation, and protein‒protein doc... by Pratima Vasistha, Pushplata Prasad Singh, Divya Srivastava, Leena Johny, Sadhana Shukla

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In Vitro Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties of Composite Flour Formulations Developed Using Selected Local Grain Varieties by T. P. Sathsara S. Perera, Pahan I. Godakumbura, M. A. B. Prashantha, S. B. Navaratne

“…Furthermore, the antimicrobial activities of the flour formulations against selected Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogenic microorganisms were comparatively evaluated using agar well diffusion and disk diffusion assays. …”
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